Thursday, February 28, 2013

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday described Zionism as a "crime against humanity" on par with anti-Semitism and fascism.

Speaking in Vienna at a United Nations event devoted to dialogue between the West and Islam, Erdogan decried rising racism in Europe and the fact that many Muslims "who live in countries other than their own" often face harsh discrimination.

"We should be striving to better understand the culture and beliefs of others, but instead we see that people act based on prejudice and exclude others and despise them," Erdogan said, according to a simultaneous translation provided by the UN. "And that is why it is necessary that we must consider -- just like Zionism or anti-Semitism or fascism -- Islamophobia as a crime against humanity." ...

Is attacking Zionism the moral equivalent of attacking Jews? You decide. In any case, needless to say, Erdogan's statement is being denounced as anti-Semitic.

And hmmm ... I find that Erdogan has been charged with making anti-Semitic remarks as far back as 1997, when he was mayor of Istanbul. And what about this YouTube clip, said to be an anti-Semitic remark in a 1993 Erdogan speech? Or, for that matter, what about the reportedly anti-Semitic play Erdogan wrote in 1974?

I guess that DoD time machine is really, really powerful. Right, Jennifer?

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And if you're wondering, even the story Rubin links from the clownish Free Beacon doesn't hang this remark around Hagel's neck. That's all her idea.

10 comments:

Zionism IS a crime against humanity. Israel is a Terrorist State. The Mother of all Terrorist States. An utterly foreign occupier perpetrating an American Taxpayer financed and morally sanctioned genocide upon the indigenous descendants of the 'biblical' Hebrew. It has no 'right' to exist, and this world will never know Peace until it does not.

If you ever wonder why The Washington Post has gone from being a great national newspaper, to one that caters to the DC Villagers, and the CW, you need look no further than Rubin, and the rest of the Op-ed staff.

They are a genuine horror-show.

And Rubin is the worst hack in a field of hacks - and one-or-two-trick ponies I think I've ever seen.

She is repugnant!And worse, a stupid, ignorant, and insipid, POS who never strays at all from her own doctine.

Fred Hiatt has assembled an Op-ed team of written and internet writers, who are like the NY Mets of 1962 - a few old stars mailing it in, and the rest of the team, a group of players who don't belong in the Major Leagues.

When the news came of the massacre in Norway Rubin rushed a column to blame Al Qaida for the murder of 77 Norwegians, many of them children. After the truth that the shooter was a Muslim-hating right winger (an apt description of Rubin herself), she did three more columns that day without retracting her earlier fabrication. It wasn't until the next day she issued a perfunctory and unapologetic correction; the paper's ombudsman frostily defended her, noting that Rubin "happens to be Jewish" and that she had to go home and do something unspecified involving candles, ignoring that the timestamps of her posts revealed the lie.

She is a viciously bigoted and dishonest woman and her continued presence at the Post is a disgrace.

The aim of Zionism as it has played out in the real world is the creation of a greater Jewish national state via the appropriation of its neighbours land and the slow ethnic cleansing of their populations.